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CVE-2025-40193

kernel: xtensa: simdisk: add input size check in proc_write_simdisk

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · November 12, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xtensa: simdisk: add input size check in proc_write_simdisk

A malicious user could pass an arbitrarily bad value to memdup_user_nul(), potentially causing kernel crash.

This follows the same pattern as commit ee76746387f6 ("netdevsim: prevent bad user input in nsim_dev_health_break_write()")

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified